Competitive friend: rash dragonite? are at least its speed and special attack EVs maxed out? why not breed it for an adamant nature instead? and what is this inner focus trash? multiscale is the obvious superior ability. You're gonna need stealth rock support and a check for ice shard users and of course there's also pranksters carrying will-o-wisp so you totally need a magic bouncer to cover that. You know what just scrap dragonite, we'll be using garchomp. What do you mean you like dragonite better?

Non-competitive friend: you have a dragonite? cool!

I read it as "I'm not part of the competitive scene so I look more at visual appeal than optimal gameplay." Neither one of these situations in strawberrymentats's post is written in a negative nature, and both are somewhat accurate descriptions of different types of Pokemon players.